Staff Backend Engineer – AI, Agentic Systems

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California, +5 more states.

📋 Description

• Design, develop, and sustain robust, scalable, and high-performance object-oriented code for our backend services.

• Create public REST APIs using Java and internal gRPC APIs for communication between services and systems.

• Formulate system designs, lead design choices, and ensure alignment with other senior engineers.

• Compose automated unit tests, integration tests, end-to-end tests, concurrency tests, and load/performance tests.

• Examine existing systems to pinpoint bottlenecks and technical debt while implementing enhancements for scalability and stability.

• Automate testing, monitoring, healing, and scaling of applications, and implement continuous integration and deployment to decrease time to market.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product managers, designers, and other engineers, to define and execute new features.

• Conduct code reviews (commenting, approving, requesting revisions, merging), mentor junior and mid-level engineers, and advocate for engineering best practices.

• Investigate and resolve complex issues, develop fixes, write root cause analysis documents, and ensure sustained performance and reliability.

• Perform objective and comparative analyses of competing technologies to inform the team about the advantages and disadvantages of a technology solution.

• Maintain comprehensive documentation (design documents, run books, change management documents, and readiness plans).

• Provide live-site support for production applications by monitoring systems, ensuring swift incident resolution, and driving continuous improvement.

• Lead cross-team projects as a single-threaded owner (STO) or technical lead, and actively assist other engineers in making progress.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering.

• 8-10 years of professional experience in software engineering.

• Strong knowledge of data structures and algorithms, object-oriented design, and effective problem-solving skills.

• Proficiency in designing and developing internet-scale services with a focus on scalability, availability, security, and reliability.

• Excellent written and verbal communication abilities, along with a collaborative and empathetic approach.

• Expertise in backend development, particularly with Java or C#, frameworks like SpringBoot, and building and optimizing RESTful APIs, ODATA framework, and SQL.

• Practical experience in building or contributing to AI/LLM-powered applications or agent-based systems.

• Familiarity with agent frameworks, tool-use patterns, and orchestration of LLM workflows.

• Experience integrating AI systems with external tools/APIs using MCP or similar protocols.

• Understanding of prompt engineering, embeddings, and vector-based retrieval systems.

• Experience in designing systems for scaling AI workloads in production environments.

🏝️ Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision insurances.

• Retirement savings plan.

• Paid time off.

• Health savings account.

• Flexible spending accounts.

• Life insurance.

• Disability insurance.

• Tuition reimbursement.